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Several major newsrooms owe their readers a retraction.

Media outlets fell over each other this year to promote a study purportedly showing that counties that hosted Trump 2016 campaign rallies later experienced a 226% increase in hate crimes.

The OpEd goes on to state the following:

The study has been thoroughly debunked this week, leaving several news organizations with egg on their face. As it turns out, uncritically parroting the findings of an unpublished study that conforms perfectly to specific political biases is apparently a dangerous gamble for ostensibly serious news organizations.

“Using the same data and statistical procedures … we replicated their study’s headline result,” write contributing authors and Harvard University Ph.D. candidates Matthew Lilley and Brian Wheaton. “Since we did not have access to the original paper’s data and code, this involved collecting each of the variables mentioned in the original paper, and then independently performing the same analysis. Wherever possible, we copied the decisions that are mentioned in the original paper. Our headline results were very close to those reported in the original paper.”

Lilley and Wheaton determined that the “results rely on comparing counties with rallies to other counties without them.” The “glaring problem” with comparing these counties to areas where rallies may not have been held is that “politicians tend to hold political rallies near where large numbers of people live.” More people means more crime, they contend.

“Simply put, no one should be surprised that Orange County, California (population 3.19 million) was home to both more reported hate incidents (5) and Trump rallies (2) than Orange County, Indiana (population 19,840, which had zero of each),” they wrote.

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Howard Allen Altman September 11th, 2019 at 12:41 am

Gerald September 11th, 2019 at 3:58 am

Dana Gwinn Robinson September 11th, 2019 at 7:48 am

Since these MSM progressives can’t use the English language correctly and redefine everything to fit their evil and bizarre narratives and agendas ..Anything defeating them is hateful..Sore criminal losers..Go Trump MAGA…

22kws22 September 11th, 2019 at 8:40 am

And here is why even purported scientific publications have to be viewed with suspicion. The tobacco institute produced many scientific studies. I’ve written scientific papers. The papers are always written to get published and circulated. Every author is focused on the that task above all other aspects of writing.
Authors won’t write anything (except Steele) because there must be believability at some level. In scientific journals it’s a higher bar. In MSM there is no bar anymore.